Holocaust Remembrance: The Shapes of Memory

The recording, explanation and the inescapable task of judging
great wrongs in the past presents historians with their most
difficult assignment. For those who have either lived through such
injustice or have been in some way responsible for it the
impositions of memory are both painful and unavoidable. Memory
shapes the future, and the recollections of past suffering haunt
and may overwhelm generations long after.
In 1938 the National Socialist Party in Germany began the final
preparations for the systematic genocide of the Jews throughout
Europe. For the Jews, whose national loyalties had long exceeded
any ties of ethnicity, the programme of extermination was an act
not merely of monstrous cruelty but of humiliation and
treachery.
In Holocaust Remembrance scholars, artists and writers
consider the ways in which the events of 1938-1945 have been, might
be, and will be remembered. The records of the Holocaust are vast
and various, ranging from the museum at Auschwitz to the cartoons
of Art Spiegelman, from the dark paintings of R. B. Kitaj to the
elegaic stories of Primo Levi, from the filmed testimonies of the
death camp survivors to revisionist historians who usurp the name
of scholar in the pursuit of denial and evasion.
The perspectives brought to bear here are rich and various -
impassioned, objective, personal, poetical, historical and
philosophical. They are united by an awareness of the dangers both
of respectful silence and overwhelming information, and that only
in remembering can an understanding of the past be sought and human
kind redeemed from the forces of humiliation and guilt.

* Rich and varied perspectives - in essays, reportage, poetry and art. * Confronts, often through personal testimonies, the most horrific event of the century. * Draws on the vast records of the Holocaust.* Rich and varied perspectives - in essays, reportage, poetry and art. * Confronts, often through personal testimonies, the most horrific event of the century. * Draws on the vast records of the Holocaust.

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